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Originally posted by checkbaiterFine you think it was biased and it had an agenda, but misrepresenting a personage as grossly as God has been misrepresented can hardly be described as anything other than hateful.
I completely agree here, I was talking about Christians hating Jesus. I do not believe the author of the article was accurate, I think he has an agenda and the story is biased.
But as far as burning in hell forever, no, I do not believe this. John 3:16 clearly states that those who do not believe perish. And elsewhere it is mentioned "he who has the Son , one would need eternal life.
And as you describe above, it contradict's God's character.
I am glad that we agree a loving, just and merciful God could not or would not assign someone to an eternity of punishment based on the relatively small period of seventy or eighty years compounded by the fact that we are prone to aberration and have a sinful nature, inherited from Adam, but that is the portrait that has been painted and what we are asked to believe.
I suspect, that its on this basis that those evangelicals who hold such a view are themselves more likely to seek punitive action rather than rehabilitation, because they are in fact, reflecting a rather cruel and unmerciful God of their own making.
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Originally posted by robbie carrobieYes, but Phil Zuckerman is a left wing radical, who will say anything to discredit Christianity and God. I do not put much value in the article you posted. It is left wing bias.
Fine you think it was biased and it had an agenda, but misrepresenting a personage as grossly as God has been misrepresented can hardly be described as anything other than hateful.
I am glad that we agree a loving, just and merciful God could not or would not assign someone to an eternity of punishment based on the relatively small period of sev ...[text shortened]... ion, because they are in fact, reflecting a rather cruel and unmerciful God of their own making.
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Originally posted by checkbaiterI have never heard of him nor does it matter what he is, or what he stands for. I was interested in the content of his article and the allegations that he was making.
Yes, but Phil Zuckerman is a left wing radical, who will say anything to discredit Christianity and God. I do not put much value in the article you posted. It is left wing bias.
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Originally posted by robbie carrobieI would be interested in the content too, but I question the content and his allegations, because of who he is. Character matters. Truth matters.
I have never heard of him nor does it matter what he is, or what he stands for. I was interested in the content of his article and the allegations that he was making.
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Originally posted by checkbaiterOn the contrary it often leads one to blind prejudice, he's a leftie, he's a right winger, he's a conservative, he's a socialist and all of a sudden we are confronted with our own prejudices which may blind us to the content of what is being said.
I would be interested in the content too, but I question the content and his allegations, because of who he is. Character matters. Truth matters.
03 May 13
Originally posted by robbie carrobieGod is merciful because he gave us Jesus.
Fine you think it was biased and it had an agenda, but misrepresenting a personage as grossly as God has been misrepresented can hardly be described as anything other than hateful.
I am glad that we agree a loving, just and merciful God could not or would not assign someone to an eternity of punishment based on the relatively small period of sev ...[text shortened]... ion, because they are in fact, reflecting a rather cruel and unmerciful God of their own making.
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Originally posted by RBHILLbecause she realises that the majority of people will live on a paradise earth.
The other day the JW asked me if good people go to heaven. This was when she was at my door. I said no. She agreed with me. Now why did she agree with me?